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Mercury Danger Email to Send ! TAKE ACTION !


Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, mercury danger, health, meat, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 28 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Keep raising our voices for the Taiji dolphins !!! A new pod of dolphins caught and killed in the coves of Taiji yesterday (oct 28th 2009) These dolphins are slaughtered for their meat,but also to use as furtilizers,dog/catfood."Spared" dolphins of these
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Cher C. (743)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 1:41 pm



Please sign Claudia's petition!!!!!!!


 

Claudia Peters (322)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 2:04 pm
Thanks for posting my petition and your support Cher
I really appreciate this
 

Cher C. (743)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 2:08 pm



Anytime my sweet friend!!!!!


 

Gorilly Girl (371)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 2:11 pm
Thank you for signing the petition "Mercury Danger Email to Send"

Big Gorilly Hugs
 

Annie Cowling (38)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 3:30 pm
Signed, thank-you Cher
 

Kari D. (168)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 3:32 pm
Kari Dyrdahl Mounds View, MN
Sent letter to Japanese Ministry of Health (Department of Food Safety)
& poted on facebook
 

Tierney G. (301)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 3:52 pm
Signed and forwarded Thanks Cher
Post on facebook too
 

Cher C. (743)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 3:55 pm


Thnx everyone!!

Much appreciated!!!

:)

 

Barbarocat Kay (646)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 4:09 pm
Thank you for signing the petition "Mercury Danger Email to Send" mine was signature 25. Thank you so much for creating this petition Claudia. I absolutely adore dolphins so please feel my spirit with you everytime you go into the ocean and see the dolphins swimming freely!!

And thnx Cher, my sweet friend, for posting this important petition for our beloved friend Claudia.
 

bernadettemp P. (74)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 6:25 pm
signed and forawrd
 

Rhonda Maness (450)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 7:51 pm
Thank you for signing the petition "Mercury Danger Email to Send" Thanks Cher
 

JennyLynn W. (107)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 8:18 pm
Signed the petition. Sent a separate email too. I hope this makes a big difference and we can get people to stop killing dolphins! Thanks Cher.
 

Cynthia Davis (228)
Thursday October 29, 2009, 9:54 pm
signed ty Cher
 

Katrin F. (187)
Friday October 30, 2009, 4:12 am
Signed & shared on fb. Thanks Claudia & Cher.
 

mary f. (74)
Friday October 30, 2009, 5:58 am
signed
 

Cher C. (743)
Friday October 30, 2009, 10:51 am


Keep raising our voices for the Taiji dolphins !!! A new pod of dolphins caught and killed in the coves of Taiji yesterday (oct 28th 2009) These dolphins are slaughtered for their meat,but also to use as furtilizers,dog/catfood."Spared" dolphins of these hunts are shipped to marine parks all over the world.High levels of mercury is present in dolphin/whale meat,why still kill them for consumption and why do they still feed their children with the poisened meat?

Please copy, paste and email or print, mail/fax the following letter to the Japanese Minister of Health:

PETITION TO WARN THE JAPANESE PEOPLE OF

MERCURY DANGER

To:
Policy Planning and Communication Division
The Department of Food Safety Bureau
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
Tokyo, Japan

E-Mail: syokucommunication@mhlw.go.jp
Fax: +81-3-3503-7965
Copy the following letter and send as email to above emailadress




Dear Minister of Health:

There is worldwide concern that mercury accumulated in the human body may pose a serious health risk, especially to pregnant women and children.

As you know, dolphin meat from drive hunts in Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, proved to be highly contaminated with toxic chemicals such as mercury, methyl mercury and PCBs. Repeated chemical analyses have shown that the level of mercury in dolphin meat is much higher than the maximum allowable level set by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan.

We understand that the role of the Department of Food Safety Bureau is to promote food safety, thereby ensuring the health of the Japanese people. We urgently request the following:

1. Prohibit the sale of dolphin meat that contains mercury exceeding the maximum allowable level set by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). The sale of food items with toxic agricultural chemicals exceeding the maximum allowable level set by MHLW is already prohibited as a result of the "Positive-list System," which was adopted in 2006. Since mercury is as harmful to the human body as toxic agricultural chemicals, the "Positive-list System" should also apply to mercury.

2. Until the above request is put into effect, consumers must be warned of the dangers associated with consuming mercury contaminated dolphin meat, in much the same way they are being warned of the health risks associated with smoking cigarettes: Every store that sells dolphin meat must be obligated to post a prominent warning label on each meat package, stating as follows: "This food item possibly contains mercury exceeding the maximum allowable level set by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Mercury accumulated in the human body may harm your health."

Sincerely,

(Your Name & Country)


 

Cher C. (743)
Friday October 30, 2009, 10:52 am


112 signatures so far!

COME ON CARE2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE SIGN FOR THE DOLPHINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Biggi Huss (28)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 12:04 pm
Noted & signed,Cher.
 

KRISTEN B. (107)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 12:15 pm
IVE SIGNED THIS ONE BEFORE... THIS IS SO DAMN HEARTBREAKING...
 
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